drillmindhoops

As I said in the intro page there aren’t a lot of drills that can really improve your defense better than live defense. So what you’re going to do is get a partner who is better than you, at least offensively and play 1v1 against them. These one on ones don’t have to be with a hoop either you can have them try and beat you down the court by dribbling (using half of the court) to work on sliding your feet and beating offensive players to the spot. Make sure you are both going hard and that you input different situations on defense against them, like closeouts, post ups, switching on a screen etc. If you don’t have a partner work on closing out and then sliding left or right, and planting your foot in front of an imaginary ball handler, beating them to the spot they want to get to.